Fashion in Film - GROUNDED: Fashion's Entanglements with Nature

This spring, the Fashion in Film Festival returns. Running in London from 20 May - 1 June, and UK wide during September and October 2025, the festival presents its 8th edition with a season that feels both elemental and electric. Titled GROUNDED: Fashion’s Entanglements with Nature, the festival turns the lens of cinema onto the tangled, tactile relationship between fashion and the natural world to interrogate, reimagine and restore.

Métamorphoses du Papillon, France, 1904, Dir. Gaston Velle.

Spanning over a century of filmmaking, from early 20th-century reels to contemporary works alive with urgency, GROUNDED invites us into a world where cloth, clay, bodies, earth, and image converge - sometimes harmoniously, sometimes with startling friction. Across more than 80 films and 16 venues - from bustling London cinemas to more intimate spaces in the South West and Scotland - the festival reaches across time and place to stitch together a rich, polyphonic narrative...

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Image Credits:

Lead Image: The Dancing Fleece. UK, 1950, Dir. Frederick Wilson. Newly restored in 4K from 35mm nitrate Technicolor film elements preserved by the BFI National Archive.

All other images as credited in photo captions.